Booker Prize 2024 shortlist: women dominate but sole male author is a likely favourite
‘Literary recognition is often still reserved for men’ observes judge Sara Collins as record number of women make six-strong shortlist
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Booker Prize 2024 longlist: Irish author Colin Barrett makes 13-strong list
The judges called Mayo writer’s Wild Houses ‘a propulsive, darkly comic account of misadventure in a small Irish town’
The best books of 2024 so far: writers and critics choose their favourite reads
Colm Tóibín’s Long Island, Lucy Caldwell’s Openings, Ferdia Lennon’s Glorious Exploits and Niamh Mulvey’s The Amendments are among the novels with multiple selections
The Guide: Rock Against Homelessness, Listowel Writers’ Week and other events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end
May 25th-31st, 2024: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
Colin Barrett: ‘My biggest fear was who’s going to want to read stories about lads in chip shops in small towns?’
The author’s writing, including his excellent debut novel, is firmly rooted in Mayo where he grew up
Fiction to look out for in 2024: Returning favourites, a fearsome degenerate, and Ireland’s trailblazing all-woman rock band
New novels by Roddy Doyle, Colm Tóibín and Marian Keyes are among the works in the pipeline, along with eagerly anticipated debuts by Ferdia Lennon and Scott McKendry
How a tiny literary magazine became a springboard for great Irish writing
The Stinging Fly, which is celebrating 25 years, has helped launch the careers of many of Ireland’s most promising writers
The Rules of Revelation: Violence and verve in modern-day Cork
Old hurts and grievances are aired in Lisa McInerney's engaging third novel
Calm with Horses: Barry Keoghan shines in a poorly plotted Irish film
Review: Tense, well-acted drama about mad hoodlums starts to drift towards the end
Dublin the last international film festival to dodge the global shutdown
The singularly imaginative film, one of many discoveries, was a worthy winner
Screen Ireland hosts Cannes women event as it steps up funding parity plan
Agency announces winners of low-budget feature film scheme for female talent
The debut books and authors to look out for in 2019
We asked some writers to tell us about their debuts ahead of their publication
How to improve Ireland’s small towns? ‘Irish Times’ readers share their ideas
We asked readers how to reverse the decline of small towns. Here are your suggestions
A grim dystopian Ireland that is all too believable
Review: The Earlie King and the Kid in Yellow, a debut novel by Cork author Danny Denton
One Star Awake by Andrew Meehan: Blackout in the city of light
A debut novel from an Irish author shines on the subjects of trauma and memory loss
Why is there a monument to 1,186 Irish emigrants in Toronto?
Man with arms raised towards CN Tower says: ‘I’m here, and I’m your responsibility’
Winter Pages: a treasure trove of soul fuel with deep roots in Irish soil
If this standard is kept up, writes Kevin Gildea, then Winter Pages will become as essential as a warm fire on the wet miserable nights of our Irish winter lives
Irish fiction in the digital age: doom and gloom or boom and bloom?
The Irish novel may be at a crossroads, says Bert Wright, but Irish fiction is as vibrant and multifarious now as fiction has ever been in any culture in literary history
The Last Four Days of Paddy Buckley review: undertaker with a death wish
This darkly funny debut novel from a former Dublin mortician offers a unique perspective on dying
Giving voice to the short story in ‘a sad, twisted melancholy sort of night’
Anne Enright champions short-story writers at Galway International Arts Festival
The six authors in the mix for Frank O’Connor award
On Wednesday a winner will be announced for the most lucrative short-story prize in the world
10 things we learned at Borris Festival of Writing and Ideas
Who is David Gilmour’s favourite lyricist? Why are film adaptations inferior to the books? Can poetry replace liturgy? All these questions and more were answered in Co Carlow
Michael Longley shortlisted for $65,000 Griffin Poetry Prize
Seven Irish authors longlisted for 2015 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award; Ruth Frances Long wins Best Creator of Children’s Science Fiction and Fantasy
We need to talk about Colin Barrett: a round-up of reviews, interviews and musings
A variety of takes on Young Skins and some thoughts from the award-winning author himself
The Clancy Kid, by Colin Barrett
Taken from his award-winning short story collection, Young Skins, this month's Irish Times Book Club choice, this is a powerful tale of lost youth in the west of Ireland
Young Skins by Colin Barrett is the new Irish Times Book Club reading choice
The debut short story collection has won the Guardian first book award, the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award
Colin Barrett wins Guardian first book award
Young Skins author has already won Rooney Prize for Irish Literature
All I want for Christmas: Danielle McLaughlin
Author Danielle McLaughlin talks about what she loves and hates about the festive season
See Richard Ford at Trinity next week, and other listings
Cathy Kelly, Colin Barrett and Bram Stoker festival
Sara Baume’s story – from ticket desk to hot ticket
The Davy Byrnes Short Story Award winner on how volunteering at the Cork International Short Story Festival helped launch her as a writer
Colin Barrett wins Rooney Prize for ‘Young Skins’ short story collection
‘A shimmering debut’ from a ‘dazzling writer’
Mayo writer Colin Barrett wins Frank O’Connor award with debut collection
Barrett is just second Irish winner of the €25,000 prize, after Edna O’Brien
Sara Baume wins €15,000 Davy Byrnes short story award
Writer beats two published novelists to follow in distinguished footsteps of Anne Enright and Claire Keegan
Brought to Book: Joseph O’Connor on why reading is a more creative act than writing
‘If there is a Hell being prepared for me, it will be a dinner party. But I’d like to be in a bar, late at night in New York, with Colm Toibin, Patti Smith, Dickens, St John of the Cross, Toni Morrison, Keats and Emily Bronte, with her brother Branwell leading the singsong while arm-wrestling’
Tale with potential loses in its telling
Oona Frawley’s debut novel, Flight, about a Zimbabwean woman who has just arrived in Ireland, and the elderly couple she cares for, is the first book from Tramp Press
Questions for Cúirt after middling performance
Competition is fierce on the literary festival circuit and on the evidence of last weekend Cúirt needs to do more to set itself apart
Colm Tóibín’s books of the year
Author of The Testament of Mary, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
Rural stories of isolation and dark humour
Growing up in Co Mayo helped Colin Barrett shape wild visual narratives written in local voices
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